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Description: | Incomplete cast copper-alloy object of unknown date and function. It is long and thin, and in excellent condition, with a very fresh break at one end and what appears to be an animal head at the other. At the broken end it is almost pentagonal in section, with four facetted faces and the fifth filled with a U-shaped groove. The apex of the pentagon has tiny transverse nicks and this forms the back of the animal's neck; the nicks may represent a mane. The grooved underside is almost flat, but the back of the neck is more steeply humped into a brow, with a conical ear or horn projecting from each upper face. Each cone has four or five steps giving a corrugated appearance; the transverse nicks end between the cones. The brow then slopes down and up again to form the nose. The lower facets also curve upwards to end in a flat lozengiform top to the nose. Below the nose is a rounded and convex terminal with a short but chunky integral rivet on the reverse. This has a burred-over end and could have passed through something about 2.5 mm thick. The groove on the reverse runs right up to the terminal, and is much less smoothly finished than the rest of the object. Surviving length 39 mm, maximum width (at terminal) 10 mm, maximum thickness (at cones) 10 mm. The object has an Iron Age feel to it. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | -800
43 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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